Or maybe the women are just on the other side of Mars. Stephen just assumed that, since the men were on Mars, the women must be on Venus—but really, which would be easier: terraforming Venus or building a big ol’ wall around the Martian equator? Something about twenty miles high, made of solid diamond, should suffice for keeping people apart for a few decades, which is all it’s supposed to do. And there’s no reason people couldn’t be subdivided down to arbitrarily small distinctions—for instance bisexuals, who would seem to need a ‘planet’ each. (It’s supposed to be a failed utopia, remember?)
Or this is what I thought, at least, until I scrolled down to find that Eliezer suggested some of Venus’ mass was moved to Mars to make the surface area bigger.
Or maybe the women are just on the other side of Mars. Stephen just assumed that, since the men were on Mars, the women must be on Venus—but really, which would be easier: terraforming Venus or building a big ol’ wall around the Martian equator? Something about twenty miles high, made of solid diamond, should suffice for keeping people apart for a few decades, which is all it’s supposed to do. And there’s no reason people couldn’t be subdivided down to arbitrarily small distinctions—for instance bisexuals, who would seem to need a ‘planet’ each. (It’s supposed to be a failed utopia, remember?)
Or this is what I thought, at least, until I scrolled down to find that Eliezer suggested some of Venus’ mass was moved to Mars to make the surface area bigger.